When I got it and read it, it was just as though some one had come behind me and hit me over the head with a wheel-spoke. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Our late discomfited host, returning on its steps, overwhelmed the fallen champion with blows of every kind, and then, led on by his vanquisher, who had assumed his arms, namely, the wheel-spoke and wicker shield, fairly cleared the brae of their adversaries, whom they drove down headlong into the morass. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Even through the thick walls of the Silent Tower, Joanna heard the stormwinds rise, groaning in the wheel-spoke rafters overhead. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)
She had found herself again in a place she knew to be the Silent Tower, this time in a narrow and stinking room where the smoke of the chambers below collected in the darkness under the wheel-spoke rafters, a room chilly and damp as a pit, without fire, almost without light. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)
Its wheel-spoke design, its wide, tree-shaded boulevards, its parks, the pillared stolidity of its major structures, all reminded him of Paris or London, of Europe, the Old World rather than the New World. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1983)
O Reader, that Lady that touched the wheel-spoke was the Queen of France! ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
But where is the Lady that stood aside in gypsy-hat, and touched the wheel-spoke with her _badine_? ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
Gun carriages moved slowly down the roads in a glare of sun which sparkled upon the steel tubes of the field artillery and made a silver bar of every wheel-spoke. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
There was a mystery connected with that piece of plate in the shape of a spring, which converted what was a seven-branched candlestick, three springs each side and one in the middle, into a sort of wheel-spoke candelabrum. ❋ Unknown (1907)
I'll take the first thing as comes handy, whether it's a horseshoe or a hammer, a wheel-spoke or a pail; I'll get hold of you if ❋ Gerhart Hauptmann (1904)
There was a mystery connected with that piece of plate, in the shape of a spring which converted what was a seven-branched candlestick, three springs on each side and one in the middle, into a sort of wheel-spoke candelabrum. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Spaniards -- limbering and off with a flash of metal, wheel-spoke and crimson trappings at a gallop again; in the plain below were regiments of infantry, deploying in skirmish-line, advancing by rushes; beyond them sharpshooters were at target practice, and little bands of recruits and awkward squads were everywhere. ❋ John Fox (1891)
But where is the Lady that stood aside in gypsy hat, and touched the wheel-spoke with her badine? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
-- what avails the defence of a wicker shield? what avails the wheel-spoke, should there be an opportunity of using it, against the impetus of an avalanche or a cannon ball? ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)
-- what avails the wheel-spoke, should there be an opportunity of using it, against the impetus of an avalanche or a cannon ball? ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)
